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. Patented lune 26, |900. S. C. LAY.

B R 0 0 M (Application med Har. 5, 1900.)

(H0 Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 652,542, dated June 26,1900. Application filed March 5, 1900. Serial No. 7,368. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern: Y `v Be it known that I, SAMUEL C. LAY, ofthe' city of Ridgeville, Randolph county, State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooms, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to brooms; and it consists of the novel featuresherein shown, dcscribed, and claimed. Y Figure l is a side elevation ofthat part of a broom affected by my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontalcross-section approximately on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

My present invention is an improvement upon the construction shown inthepatent to Joseph Lay, No. 272,800, dated February 27, 1883. In thatpatent a narrow metal band encircles the butt of the filling ofbroom-corn or splints, and a single row of nails is driven through thisband and clenched in the filling. Some distance below the first band isa second similar band. Only two nails penetrate the handle. The bandsare made in two pieces, locked together at the edges. The filling formsthe only connection between the two bands. The result is that when apoor quality of filling is used a very weak and shaky broom is produced.In order to strengthen the broom, a cap is slid down around the handleand incloses a butt-end of the filling to serve as a bracejbetween thehandle and the brush, and still the result is unsatisfactory.

My present invention is the result of years of experience and studyin anendeavor to overcome the defects of the construction above referred to.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the metal case 3 is formed bytaking a wide sheet of metal and locking its ends together at a point intransverse alinement with the center of the handle 4. The case is twoinches or more in width and is flaring, being larger at the bottom thanat the top. The butt-ends' of the filling is placed in the case 3 fromthe bottom. Then the handle tis pushed down into the filling from thetop. A horizontal upper row of nails 6 is inserted through one wall ofthe case near its upper edge and clenched in the lling. A similar row ofnails 7 is inserted through the opposite wall of the case and clenchedin the filling. Similar rows ofnails S are inserted near the lower edgeof the case. The central ones of the nails G, 7, and 8 pass through thehandle 4, and the nails 9 are inserted into the handle, one on eachside, between the upper and lower nails.

The case is very' strong, affords a long bear-- ing lengthwise of thefilling, compresses the filling very tightly, and holds it very firmlyto the handle. The six nails in the handle in lines lengthwise of thehandle afford a long bearing and firm connection between the handle andlling. The wide case is superior to two narrow bands, because there is arigid connection between the upper and lower nails. The edges of thefilling are allowed to assume a naturally-rounded outline, thus makingit possible to compress the filling much tighter than where the edgesare square. The flaring shape of the case allows the lips of the fillingto spread and give thebrush a nice shape. The cord binding l0 limits thespread of the filling.

The tips of the nails have beveled faces 1l, and the nails are driventhrough onewall of the case and through the filling, and where the tipsstrike the inner face of the opposite wall the tips turn and clench inthe filling. The direction in which the tip will turn is predeterminedby noticing the direction of the beveled face, and the nails are drivenso that opposing or opposite clenches will be on opposite sides of thesame mass of filling, as shown in Fig. 2, and in this way I secure afirmer grip upon these masses of filling.

I claim-- Ina broom, a widemflaring case formed by interlocking the endsof the metal in position to come in transverse alinement with thehandle, filling inserted upwardly into the casing, a handle inserteddownwardly into` the filling, nails inserted near the upper edge of thecase and nails inserted near the lower edge of the case, said nailspassing through 4one wall of the case and through the filling andthrough the handle and clenching against the opposite wall of the case,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL C. LAY. Witnesses:

M. B. SrRATroN, Jos. LAY.

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